than many would have liked, but the ride home is proving to be a little oother. john schriffen is in fairfax county with more. good evening. drivers here in fairfax county have actually lucked out tonight. take a look here at 495. right here over here, it s moving. we ve seen it build up at points. right now, it is moving. now, we ve beenround northern virginia all afternoon. and because of this snow, right now roads are hit-or-miss. drivers here on interstate 66 were greeted this morning wh bumper-to-bumper traffic. for many commuters here in northern virginia, this week has been a nightmare just trying to get around. i ve been driving between fairfax and george mason university and it s been really, really bad. yesterday took me just an hour to get from fairfax city into george mason. 66, 50 and 29 have pretty much been navigated. it s been pretty bad. reporter: we headed out today and saw what many drivers have been complaining about. massive snow mounds limiting d
time since back-to-back blizzards hit us. those blizzards may be a thing of the past, but they re still causing real problems for commuters across the area. snow and ice are still piled up all over the area. that reduces the number of lanes available on many of the roads. jane watrel is down near the national maul will with more on. jane? i m at 14th and jefferson. i want to show you how the evening commute is going along. it s moving fairly smoothly, but that wasn t the case earlier today. the morning rush hour actually ended at about 1:00 this afternoon. after commuters spent hours trying to go just a few miles. frustration spilled into the streets of washington, d.c. near 14th and independence, drivers were still coming in from virginia in a rush hour that extendednto the noon hour. very tough. it took me two hours to get here. where did you drive from in. from springfield. it was a nightmare. 2 1/2 hours for only 15 miles. that s too much. reporter: this i
or approach. steve handelsman has more. thanks. good evening. this is a twin message today from the obama democrats. number one, that they are not rebooting. number two, that they are rededicating to job creation. the day after his state of the union promise to focus on the economy, president obama went to florida touring an air force base sending supplies to haiti and announcing $8 billion in high-speed rail grants to 31 states and the district of columbia. creating jobs has to be our number one priority in 2010. reporter: back in washington, democrats echoed tt. jobs, jobs, and jobs. reporter: but democrats are still pushing health care reform, vowing to crash gates and jump fences. that doesn t work, we ll parachute in, but we re going to get health care reform passed for the american people. reporter: if it sounds after the state of the union like the same obama agenda, it is. last night, he didn t reinvent himself. reporter: republicans agree and compla
going to thicken up through the day. so we ll get up into the low 40s tomorrow. look for some freezing rain setting up. this is after 8:00 p.m. tomorrow. areas around rappahannock county with just plain old rain. from d.c. south. but, again, switching over and mixing in with more rain and even snow for friday. we ll talk about those friday details a little bit more, wendy and jim, coming up. thank you, veronica. in other news, a virginia man accused in a deadly shooting spree is in police custody. 39-year-old christopher speight is suspected of killing eight people at his home in appomattox located 100 miles southwest of richmond. he turned himself in this morning after hiding out in the woods overnight. authorities face another potential threat, bombing devices have been found at the scene. reporter: after discovering eight bullet-riddled bodies in or near this house near appomatt appomattox, virginia, and after a manhunt for the suspected gunman, 39-year-old christoph
former president bill clinton arrived as the special envoy bringing supplies in meeting with haiti s president and health care workers. [inaudible] some of the injured to get out. many others gather at the dominican border. those who remain behind face an uncertain future in tent cities where they wait, morning, and give birth as others around them continue to die. we talked all week about problems at the airport in hopes of speeding up the delivery of food and medicine. the u.n. has changed the way that the airports are being run. food and aid crews get priority. a brazilian peacekeepers captured this on his cell phone. some people ran for safety covered in dust and others stood in disbelief looking at the buildings that collapsed a matter of seconds before their eyes. time is running out in the race to find people trapped in the rubble but there have been some remarkable rescues. we have some amazing video to share. the magnitude of the misery in haiti is overwh